Walt Whitman Quotes
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Nothing endures but personal qualities. Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Produce great men, the rest follows. Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Simplicity is the glory of expression. Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. The beautiful uncut hair of graves. The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. The future is no more uncertain than the present. The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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